This award reflects Guillermo's dedication and rigor throughout his PhD, as well as the impact of his research. Well-deserved recognition for years of hard work! Thesis supervised by Pere Barlet Ros and Alberto Cabellos Aparicio.🎓

This is one of the university's highest distinctions for doctoral theses, recognizing outstanding scientific and technical contributions.📓

So well deserved 🏆 Guille's research advances the foundations of topological deep learning to disrupt how we understand and compute with computer networks, neural networks, social networks, and so many more. We're lucky to have him on the team, and excited for what he does next. Congratulations!

Geometric Intelligence Lab@geometric-intel.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎉Congratulations to Guillermo Bernárdez Gil! Thrilled to share that our postdoc, Guille, has been awarded the 2026 Extraordinary Doctoral Award by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Congrats, Guille, so proud to have you on our team👏 🔗https://tinyurl.com/43hbr9t3

Huge congrats to the team. Nima is now an Associate Professor at Texas A&M, and Steve Bako is at Aurora Innovation. Proud to see our research community shaping the future of graphics, 10+ years on!🎓🖥️

It was the first ML approach to Monte Carlo denoising and the ideas still power nearly every modern denoiser today. This is what the SIGGRAPH 2026 Test-of-Time Award honors: research whose impact only grows with age. 🕰️

Before their paper, realistic Monte Carlo rendering meant noisy images unless you waited for more samples.⌛️Sen, Kalantari, Steve Bako had a better idea: train a neural network to filter the noise using extra info renderers already produce (albedo, normals, depth).🧠✨

🏆Congrats to Prof. Pradeep Sen and former PhD student Nima Kalantari who were just awarded the SIGGRAPH Test-of-Time Award for their 2015 paper that transformed computer graphics rendering! Read more here👇 tinyurl.com/mvh569zx @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

Our review on superposition in AI & brains is published in @nature.com #Machine #Intelligence 🌐 Neural networks encode concepts in superposition. We can recover them in 3 steps: identifiability, compressed sensing, interpretability. W/ @david-klindt.bsky.social O'Neil Reizinger & Maurer 🌟

In 2014, Nakamura won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue LEDs; the breakthrough that made phones, screens, traffic lights, and energy-efficient lighting possible. Some call it as important as Edison's light bulb.💡

🔵⚡Big feature in @cnn.com this week on our very own Prof. Shuji Nakamura (Materials & ECE). The man who lit up the world with blue LEDs, and now wants to power it too. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/msm4h9bf @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social

@fatihdinc.bsky.social won the Richard C. DiPrima Prize from SIAM! He is an incredible scientist and I feel genuinely lucky to work with him alongside @wtredman.bsky.social and @ninamiolane.bsky.social . Congrats Fatih! Read more here: news.ucsb.edu/2026/022632/...

New mathematical frameworks reveal how stable thoughts emerge from chaotic brain activity

Postdoc Fatih Dinc has been recognized by the the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his work developing a bridge between mathematics and neuroscience.

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My postdoc work with @ninamiolane.bsky.social and @geometric-intel.bsky.social is out! Check it out!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Low-dimensional Neural Codes Suppress Neuronal Noise and Extend the Working Memory Duration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.731010v1

At UCSB, Fatih is co-advised by ECE Professor @ninamiolane.bsky.social and KITP Professor Boris Shraiman. We're proud to have him in the #ECE community. Congratulations, Fatih! 👏 #AppliedMathematics #Neuroscience #NeuroAI #UCSB #ECE #SIAM

🧠 Can geometry give us a theory of neural computation? Claire Isabel Webb and I discussed how #geometry, the hidden shapes & structure inside high-dimensional neural data, can be a powerful tool to understand how the brain computes. @longnow.org @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social

The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org · 2mo ago

Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? @ninamiolane.bsky.social proposes answers in her Long Now Talk with @berggruen.org's Claire Isabel Webb.

What an incredible season of Long Now Talks! We heard from @ninamiolane.bsky.social on the geometry of consciousness, @ericries.bsky.social on incorruptibility, @bayoakomolafe.bsky.social on new time paradigms, @indyjohar.bsky.social on planetary consciousness + more

🏆Congratulations to Prof. Elaheh Ahmadi, recipient of the 2026 Young Investigator MBE Award from the International MBE Advisory Committee! Her research on novel ultra wide bandgap devices is pushing the boundaries of high power, high frequency, and quantum applications.🔬⚡

Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? @ninamiolane.bsky.social proposes answers in her Long Now Talk with @berggruen.org's Claire Isabel Webb.

• Lastly, animation of an extra long sea ice concentration rollout over the spring of 2024 for the Baltic Sea, with reanalysis atmospheric forcing. The regional model remains surprisingly stable while only trained with 2 autoregressive steps.

• Njord is trained globally at 0.25° and on the Baltic Sea at 2km resolution. In the regional setting Njord conditions on boundary data from an independent global ocean model, where previous emulators either lack boundary forcing or depend on the very system they aim to replace.

The ocean is inherently chaotic, yet existing data-driven ocean models produce deterministic forecasts. In our new preprint, we introduce Njord, a probabilistic graph neural network for ensemble ocean forecasting. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2605.15470 A couple highlights below 🧵

@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social is ranked #3 academic institution in the world for automation and control by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 🏆 At the heart of this success is the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation! Discover 👉 www.ccdc.ucsb.edu

"The award reflects the wonderful mentors, colleagues, researchers, and engineers I've worked with throughout my career." – Dr. Klamkin Dr. Klamkin will be honored at the CSW Conference on May 25 in Kumamoto, Japan. We're so proud! 🎉 #UCSB #ECE #Photonics #Semiconductors #IPRM

🏆 Congratulations to ECE Professor and Aeluma CEO Dr. Jonathan Klamkin on receiving the prestigious IPRM Award from Compound Semiconductor Week! Read more here👇 tinyurl.com/apx9phhc @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

Can geometry help explain how neuronal signals create consciousness?🤔🌐 Loved diving into this question w/ the brilliant Claire Webb from the @berggruen.org thanks to the @longnow.org foundation ! Watch our conversation here ⬇️ @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social

The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org · 3mo ago

How do the binary electronic signals of neurons give rise to consciousness? Mathematician and machine learning researcher @ninamiolane.bsky.social joined science historian Claire Isabel Webb of @berggruen.org to explore this question from an unexpected direction: geometry. Watch the full episode ->

🏥Congratulations to ECE Prof. Ramtin Pedarsani's team on receiving a UC Noyce Initiative award to develop robust vision-language models for clinical applications — part of a $3.4M UC-wide research push for computational health and cybersecurity.🤖 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mm9jb8x

🔬How do you study thousands of neurons at once? You build better tools. ECE Prof. Spencer Smith's SLAB Lab designed a scan angle multiplier that achieves the laser scanning trifecta: high speed, high resolution, and a larger area.🧠⚡ 📜https://tinyurl.com/36j7pa3d

🎉Congrats to ECE undergraduate Roland Yin on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship — one of the most prestigious honors in STEM!🏆 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social 🔗https://tinyurl.com/63h5hvfz

His work on high-speed integrated circuits & III-V CMOS architectures is pushing the limits of next-gen wireless, photonics, and satellite communications.🛰️ He also co-founded PseudolithIC to bring these innovations to market, turning UCSB research into real-world impact.💡

Excellent work by Roark Chao and the UCSB team on their recent publication in Optica Express⚡️. These new microLED designs represent a major step forward for the future of data centers and display technology. Read more below👇 bit.ly/4sejwcL

Hair-width LEDs could replace lasers — and a UCSB doctoral student is helping make it happen

Study demonstrates a new micro–light-emitting diode (microLED) design that improves both efficiency and beam directionality.

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UC Santa Barbara@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#UCSB research has found that new LED designs the size of a human hair could replace lasers. This new microLED design improves both efficiency and beam directionality. "We’re talking about devices that are literally the size of a hair follicle." Full story: https://ow.ly/49HV50YkvgO

I’m pleased to share that I've been selected as a Fellow of the 2026 Thinking About Thinking Program! I’m grateful to join a global, research-led ecosystem engaging thoughtfully with how AI is developed, governed, and understood. @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social